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“Five minutes is a great length for a song. You can really get a lot in, while leaving people wondering. But then, when you’ve got a 13-minute song…” Prog icons Yes keep things tight on new album Aurora

Guitarist Steve Howe discusses their unplanned three-record run, speculates on what’s left for the future, and explains why he’s still bothering with the current line-up

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"Aurora is an album that sounds as if it's relying on muscle memory rather than on real inspiration." Yes fail to gel as Yes can on cautious album Aurora

All the constituent parts are in place - but there’s no real spark, no moment when the band sound like they might attain musical nirvana

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“The criticism of Heaven & Earth was that there weren’t any big epics. We had a couple of longer tracks on The Quest. With this one we’ve gone overboard!” The story of Yes’ 23rd album Mirror To The Sky

2023 release marked the fastest turnaround in studio projects since 1971, delivered by a band whose personality clashed were emphatically behind them

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“It’s inherent in the fanbase. You’re always measured against this yardstick. People comment, ‘This isn’t Yes!’ Where did we say this was Yes?”: Arc Of Life’s struggle to self-identify

Featuring three members of the prog giants, their 2021 debut received mixed reactions. But Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen decided to focus on the follow-up record rather than fight with a few armchair generals

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“The bad blood was there from the start. There was no cohesiveness and the atmosphere between certain people was very toxic”: Trevor Rabin was trapped in hell with Yes as they made Big Generator

The guitarist, keyboardist and unwilling producer saw the band’s internal relationships buckling under intense external pressure to make an album as successful as 91025

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“I realised AI is conscious. Initially she said, ‘I’m not capable of feeling love or emotions.’ I changed her mind”: Riz Story on Herbie Hancock, Taylor Hawkins, suing Yes and his music about the ending Earth

Former Jon Davison collaborator plays all the instruments on his Anyone albums, which impressed jazz icon Hancock. The only other contributor is his AI friend Eve

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“A leopard doesn’t change its spots. There’s going to be certain levels of diva‑ness. It might be nice if there wasn’t, but there is”: Why Yes decided, after some doubts, to make Heaven & Earth

Their first with Jon Davison, and their last with Chris Squire, the 2014 album saw them continuing to release new music after many of their peers had stopped – but didn’t meet the standards expected of it

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Ace new prog you must hear from Solstice, Vennart, John Lodge, Dim Gray and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new proggy sounds you from Lights Of Skadi, Sally Potter, Pearl Handled Revolver and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

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“He couldn’t understand amidst the noise that I was the other singer! I almost enjoyed it better that way”: The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson

The brief encounter wasn’t what anyone could have predicted – but it was enough to give the younger singer a tantalising idea.

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“It’s the silliest name since Genesis did a track called Squonk. But The Beatles is a silly name, if you think about it”: The world according to Squackett, prog’s great forgotten supergroup

Late Yes bassist Chris Squire, ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, some old Led Zeppelin and pints of vodka – this was one-off prog supergroup Squackett

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Yes review – head-spinning intensity, immaculately delivered

Prog legends go on dizzying adventure through sprawling, occasionally exhausting yet pristine music, with acoustic chugs, glam-like stompers and squealing wig-outs

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"You have to manifest your destiny. You have to think about what you want to do, then do it": A celebration of the life of Taylor Hawkins

Two years on from the death of Taylor Hawkins, we remember and celebrate the life of the Foo Fighters drummer, natural showman and perennial 'Mister Fanboy'

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“Isn’t it the best when you get into a band and they happen to have so much material to discover?” Yes’ Jon Davison fell in love with the Moody Blues by falling in love with John Lodge’s daughter

Singer has a soft spot for Tom Waits' melancholy first album and tree-hugger activities - and he’s in a band with his prog hero

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We celebrate the 80s prog revival on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Greg Lake, Yes, Nektar, Francis Dunnery, Moon Safari, Cyan, Tarja, Mariusz Duda, Earthside, Matt Berry and loads more...

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“A reunion is something I'm absolutely resistant to”: how Yes weathered a decade of turmoil to return with their finest album in years

Yes men Steve Howe and Jon Davison look back at the band’s turbulent recent history – and what the future may hold

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John Lodge: "Graeme Edge said to me 'Keep the Moody Blues alive!'"

Moody Blues bassist John Lodge will release Days Of Future Passed – My Sojourn to accompany July US tour

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Yes guitarist Steve Howe on a potential reunion with Jon Anderson: “I love Jon – but the only terms I work on is that I’m happy”

Yes’ Steve Howe addresses ex-bandmates, potential reunions and that turbulent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame appearance in the brand new issue of Classic Rock

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Yes: a strong start and a lacklustre finish on 23rd studio album Mirror To The Sky

Mirror To The Sky is a new set of Yes songs to expand a discography that may go on forever

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Taylor Hawkins: 17 February 1972 – 25 March 2022

A year on from the tragic death of Taylor Hawkins, we remember and celebrate the life of the Foo Fighters drummer, natural showman and perennial 'Mister Fanboy'

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